Melfi Fondazione Nitti: Giovanni Amendola 1882-1926, "L'Uomo che sfidò Mussolini" di Antonio Carioti

April 25th in Melfi, sponsored by the Municipality, the Nitti Association and Foundation, and the ANPI, with the patronage of the National Committee for the Centenary of the Death of Giovanni Amendola. Amendola's extreme dedication. A liberal, a Nitti supporter, an anti-fascist, Matteotti's heir as leader of the parliamentary opposition to Mussolini. An important topic from the roundtable discussion at the Nitti Center: "Amendola was among the few who saw the violent fascist dictatorship as the collapse of the state." Giovanni Amendola—whose name and surname he shared with his grandfather, president of the National Committee for the Celebrations of the Death (caused by a violent attack by fascist squads) of the leader of the last parliamentary opposition to Mussolini—marched in the front row through the streets and squares of Melfi on Sunday, April 25, alongside Mayor Giuseppe Maglione, the president of the Nitti Foundation, Stefano Rolando, the president of the local ANPI (National Association of Italian Partisans), Anna Martino, and the director of the Melfi Nitti Association, Gianluca Tartaglia. They paid homage to the great names who punctuate the relationship, carved in stone and monuments, between Italian anti-fascists and the city of Frederick II's Constitutions, but also Nitti's hometown and the city of many exiled by the regime (including Eugenio Colorni and Manlio Rossi Doria). He then gave his introductory speech at the conference held that afternoon at the Nitti Cultural Center, detailing the attack by the Tuscan fascist squads, the doctors' desperate attempt to save his life (Federico Nitti, son of Francesco Saverio, also an exile and a researcher at the Pasteur Institute, who had also held Piero Gobetti in his dying arms, also did his utmost in Paris). He also recounted the fabric of an opposition that Amendola led to the point of taking on the Aventine challenge, withdrawing the opposition from the Montecitorio benches in the hope—later dashed—that, especially after the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, acknowledged by Mussolini, he would withdraw the prime minister's mandate, just as his father, King Umberto I, had done in the early 1900s with President Pelloux after the protests and, indeed, the withdrawal of opposition parliamentarians following the massacre of the people in Milan carried out by the royal soldiers of General Bava Beccaris. A complex history centered on Amendola's political and institutional evolution. He was elected in 1919 as a Liberal in Salerno and held political ties to Francesco Saverio Nitti, serving as his undersecretary of finance before becoming minister in the Facta government. A relationship of mutual trust and friendship, which continued between his sons, led to the production of unpublished documents and important testimonies during the conference in Melfi. Opening with a discussion by Councilor Alessandro Panico on the significance of the city's ongoing commitment "to a history of resistance in which Southern Italy also played a significant role," the roundtable discussion featured Professor Stefano Rolando, president of the Nitti Foundation, who outlined Amendola's very concept of "long resistance." Without it, he said, "Italy would have suffered the same humiliation that the Americans imposed on Germany and Japan, seeing a constitution imposed for discontinuity. Italy, however,—thanks to those ongoing vicissitudes of internal opposition—was recognized as having the right to a free Constituent Assembly and a free Constitution." Following Giovanni Amendola's presentation, the discussion focused on the contributions of historians. Antonio Carioti (Corriere della Sera) gave a brilliant presentation of Amendola's biography, which forms the basis of his essay "The Man Who Challenged Mussolini," published by Latera. Donato Verrastro, a contemporary historian and vice-rector of the University of Basilicata, concluded the proceedings. The entire packed hall of the Nitti Center, including former mayors Giuseppe Brescia and Livio Valvano, was in attendance until the last minute. Verrastro, in turn, presented previously unpublished documentation and a reading of "the thought, work, and political determination of a figure who remains an inspiration among those who have considered Italy's future, even before ideologies and party interests." TG7 Basilicata is a brand of: (TG7 Basilicata di Pino Di Lucchio), Communications Agency, Video Production, Social Media VAT Number: 02209390760 Tel (+39) 3913529713 📧 Email: [email protected] 📧 Certified Email: [email protected] 🌐 Visit our blog: https://tg7basilicata.blogspot.com/ 🔔 Subscribe to the 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲 channel:    / e20basilicata   📱 Facebook:   / tg7basilicata   🤳 Instagram:   / tg7_basilicata   🚨 Telegram https://t.me/tg7basilicata 📑 Twitter: https://twitter.com › vibraz_lucane